Alex Gladstein – Peter McCormack

“Imagine if it was a democratic process…and the government went to the people and said ‘hey who wants a 44% reduction in their purchasing power next Wednesday?’ Zero people would raise their hands obviously…devaluations can never be democratic; but the economic part of it is the hidden repression – this is the part the

“You talk about the CIA and American foreign policy during the Cold War…that’s like level one. We’re on a second level here, the IMF and World Bank are operating on a meta-level, like we’re above Cold War politics, we’re at the level of timeless, strong countries abusing poor countries; this is way beyond the Cold War.

“Bitcoin stands alone in the world as the only currency that’s non-political. And that’s why I think it’s the only one that has a shot to be this neutral reserve asset that would be globally restraining equally among all players.” — Alex Gladstein Location: San Francisco Date: Monday 7th February Project: Human Rights

“What I care about isn’t that Bitcoin succeeds, or that Ethereum succeeds, or that any specific project succeeds. What I care about is separating money from state; the entire financial system being built on market principles instead of coercion.” — Erik Voorhees Location: Remotely Date: Tuesday 16th November Project: H

“It’s reasonable to think that in the next 10-15 years, we’ll start seeing a real shift. Whether it’s to a bi-polar world or a multi-polar world or potentially a world where we no longer have the petrodollar as the reserve currency… but rather, maybe the Bitcoin standard.” — Alex Gladstein Location: Remotely Date: Mond